The writing on the wall

AUTHOR(S)

Darnton, R.

PUB. DATE

June 1990

SOURCE

UNESCO Courier;Jun90, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p12

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Recounts the author's first-hand observation of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall between Nov. 9 and 12, 1989. Beginning of the destruction; Wall's symbolism; East Germans who stayed home; Western views of the wall; Lure of money; The shadow of the wall.

Checkpoint Charlie, a gap in the Berlin Wall, is the best-known crossing between the communist and noncommunist worlds. On the Western side, tourists, anticommunist demonstrators and allied guards watch heavily armed East German sentinels watchingthem. In 1987, many more tourists will be here to...

Opinion. The editor-in-chief of Die Zeit reflects on the 25th anniversary of the partitioning of Berlin. So long as the wall stands, cutting the city of Berlin asunder with its watchtowers, searchlights and shootouts when a desperate Easterner tries to escape, there can be no real peace in Europe.